The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE. - T r Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. R. Roxby, Mt . G. Belmore, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. G. Weston, and Miss Huaspeth. After which, at a quarter to Fight o'c'ock, Shaksnere's Tragedy of OTHELLO. Mr. Phelps ; Mes rs. Creswick, Walter Lacy, G. F. Neville, A Rayner, Raymond; Mrs. Vermann Vezin, and Miss Atkinson. Doors open at ha f-past Six—Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. TLTIS EVENING, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE. M ess rs. 'Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, &c . , Mesdames Beatn,ce, Ange', &c. Alter which, PRESENTED AT COURT. Messrs. Buck stone, Eh Ar', W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, Bra'd, &C.; Mes dames SdoN7don, Griffith, Hi 1, Wright, Lovell, &c. And BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEU2vI THEATRE, tinder the sole management of Mr. Pechter. This Theatre will OPEN on SATUIIDAY. October 22, with a New Drama, entitled the KING'S BUTTERFLY, in which Mr. Pechter will pertor . m the principal character. The scenery painted by Mr. V; illiam Callcott. The Box-office will open on Monday, October 17, from Elwin till Four. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE bTREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forre4ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Bat nett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THE ATRE-RO VAL, ADELPHI.—. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrs. J. Clarke, Billingtun, Eburne, and Mrs. Allred Mellon. After which, RORY O'MOR E. Rory (with Irish Ballads), Mr, John Collins. Other chara"ters by Messrs. Bi P:allips, Paul Bedford, Stuart, St.ephenson, C. J. Smith; Mrs. 2.lfrcd Mellon and Miss Kate Belly. To cooclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy (with song - s), 311. - . John Colli C o mmence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager. Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINEN r 'TALENT AND COMEDY. This popular Theatre is Open for the Winter Season. Those celebrated artistes Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews are re-engaged. THIS EVENING, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's highly successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL IHEY GET OUT OF IT ? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, 31r. and Mrs. F. Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. .1.1, J. Montague; Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling, After which, a New Comedy Farce, by Maddison Morton, Esq., entitled WOOD OCR'S LITTLE SAME. Mr. C. Xathews, Mrs. F. Matthews. To ccnclude with UNDER THE ROSE. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, JNLIMITE D CONFIDENCE. Followed by, at Eight, MIL EY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, ,Btoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor - ugh and Manders. After which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne ; Mesdames Swanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson. COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 2ss. per ton. I Double ..21s. per ton. Top 245. „ Deep 22s. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, tan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLILNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, llyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every EveninEf by lIENRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendish street, W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. illS DAL—Morning, Sh. 32m.—Afternoon, 9d. 20m. Ea-REORRow.-Morning, 9a. 59m.—Afternoon, 10" a. 44m. ftljg • LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1364. How to expend the greatest amount of public money with the least possible result is the problem which our Board of Admiralty appear; to hive set itself to solve. They have often succeeded in coming very near a result, but their last achievement really out-does themselves. The public have grown so accustomed to their maladministration and extra vagance that they have almost ceased to wonder and exclaim, but the case is qu , mtion is so flagrant that it has aroused the attention even of those who look on all Admiralty proceedings with quiet despair. Great interest has been excited by the trial of Captain COLES'S much-talked-of system of turret ships, and it was a source of general satisfaction when it was first decided at headquarters that his method should be submitted to the fair test of prac tical experiment, It was many a long year b:fore this concession was made, but the decision when come to was generally applauded, for without in any way committing ourselves to unconditional approval of the system, we must say that Captain COLES'S perseverance and ability, the skill with which he supported his views before competent examiners, and the favour with which they have been received in scientific and professional circles, alike entitle his model turret ship to a fair trial. This point, however, was gained, and the Admiralty, following their favourite plan of cutting down and altering whenever it is possible to find an excuse for doing so, directed that Captain COLES should convert the Royal Sovereign, a costly wooden three decker, into a turret-ship on his system. And now, what is the end of the story ? The ship is completed, equipped, manned, and put under the command of a very able officer, Captain OSBORNE, and all who are interested in such matters are watching with anxiety the results of her winter campaign. The trial trips have been as yet satis factory, and her commander has expressed himself well pleased with what he has seen of her. All is rsady for the promised fair trial, when the public is startled by the intelligence that the skip is paid out of commission and placed in the steam reserve —when and in what form to be allowed to re appear, may be asked. Such a proceeding is out. rageous alike to common sense aad justice. It is undoubtedly due to Captain COLES and his sup porters that the ship should be sent fairly to sea and allowed to prove her sea-going capacities. That is the very point on which he especially claims prece dence for his system over the famous American Monitors, which, however formidable at close quar ters, have been proved to have the serious draw. back of being generally unseaworthy. A ship may be in the mysterious list of the steam reserve for fifty years without anyone knowing how she would behave in rough weather at sea ; and thus Captain COLES'S invention is pronounced to have failed, quietly huddled oat of sight with the hope, per haps, that it will drop out of public remembrance. But the public feel that they have been ill-used no lsss than Captain COLES. Why, if the experiment was not worth trying fully and fairly, was a vessel that cost a hundred thousand pounds to be sacrificed to it, and the public money wasted in an experiment which was never intended to be carried eu , .? Why, if there really were grounds, as there undoubtedly were, in the present transition state of naval ar c hi tecture, f or test i ng how much Capta i n CoLEs's plan was worth, should the work stop half way ? Why s h ou ld men an d off i cers who have learned how to work this particular ship be paid off, and their knowledge turned to no acceunt ? Why are we to go on building iron plated ships on the ordinary plan, w h en all the time the turret s hips, for what we know, may prove far superior as vessels of war ? We cannot see that the Admi ralty excuses for the proceeding are at all satisfac. tory. It is gravely asserted that th 3 Royal Sove reign was never intended for a sea-going s hi p at all, but merely as a floating battery for harbour defence, eapable of being sent to any part of the Channel, but not adapted to cruise with a equadrou—that hsr want of masts and the lowness of her decks disqualify her for a seaygoing ship, and to try her with the ships of the Channel, would be of no practical use. She was sent to Portland, we are told to try her turrets and guns; and that since an accident necessitated her going into a dockyard, Captain OSBORNE sent up a list of alterations that were requisite, when it was thought no advantage would be gained by keeping the ship in commission during the winter, so in one of our Admiralty's periodical fits of economy officers and men were for the most part paid off, and the grand new experi ment, the Royal Sovereign, transformed into a tender to the Excellent. There are several points in this explanation which require explanation them selves, The Thyal Sovereign, we are told, was never in her new form intended for a sea-going ship. But :she certainly was intended for a sea - going ship when first built at an outlay of a hundred thousand pounds, and if Captain COLES was to do no more than build a floating battery he might, one would think, have been allowed to construct it for himself without spoiling a ship of the calibre of the Royal Sovereign. But it was generally understood that the Royal Sovereign was to be a seagoing ship, and unless Captain COLES has been very much misrepresented that is certainly the impression he intended to con vey. There is no great miracle in constructing an effective floating battery " capable of being sent to any port in the Channel, but not adapted to cruise with a squadron." A good many professional men could, no doubt, design such a one without devoting ten years to perfecting and publishing it. The very merit of Captain COLES'S scheme is its professed superiority to the American method, which makes the ships unsea worthy; and if his real endeavour is to be no more than a floating battery, it is decidedly inferior to monitors, which have contrived to go to sea. As for the assertion that the absence of masts and the low decks of the Royal Sovereign disqualify her for seagoing purposes, that is virtually deciding against all turret ships, for the low decks are one of their distinctive features. To say that it would be useless to grant the ship a trial is to pre-judge the case. It would have been fairer to the inventor and to the public to say it was useless to make the experiment at all. \Vhen the affair first begun, it was certainly given out that the Royal Sovereign was to be a fair test of Captain COLES'S method, and as such the public accepted it. The "floating battery" is only, we believe, a convenient excuse, for nobody doubted that Captain CoLEs could con struct a floating battery. We should like to hear what he has to say on the subject ? We should ~imagine he feels considerable indignation as well as disappointment at the issue of this much talked of trial, which has really been no trial at all. There is one thing certain. IV hen Parliament meets we shall hear something more about this " floating battery," and we shall hope that one practical result of the affair will be the application of the Adm rally's favourite principle of conversion and al. teration to their own Board, which needs a thorough remodelling before it fu!fils the require. ments of the public service. News received from New York up to the Ist o 0 ;tober, still leaves the actual condition of affairs uncertain. But all that we gather from the vague and hesitating details of the grand encounter between SHERIDAN and EARLY, seems to confirm our original impression that the Federal success had been greatly exaggerated in the first instance. The Americans claim to make war on a new scale, and certainly not only in the gigantic extent of their undertakings, but in the eccentricity of their results they have reversed the whole system of old world military tactics. We, of the old echool, should not thiok very much of a triumph where the victor cannot keep his communications with his own Government open and from which the vanquished retreats in safety with the whole of his trains and stores. Yet such appears to have bee❑ the case at Winchester, and it is very certain that the discrepancy between the losses on the two sides cannot have been fairly stated, since SHERIDAN has not thought fit to push on his ad vantage. When the Confederates state their losses at 2,500 killed, wounded, and missing, and the North will not calculate theirs, the case looks bad for the Federals, and the capture of SHERIDAN'S couriers by Confederate cavalry in his rear makes the matter worse. It is true that the Federal Government may find it just now very convenient to receive no despatches direct from the seat of war, but the people cannot be deceived for long. Mean while in Missouri and Alabama the Confederate star is again the ascendant. General PRICE has entered Missouri with his whole army; he is within 60 miles of the capital of St. Louis, where business is sus pended, and the citizens are arming themselves, in answer to an appeal from the Federal come mender, General ROSENCRANS. The real sympa thies of the West are mainly with the South, and if the Confederates hold Sr. Louii it will be an important step gained. In Alabama, again, General FORREST has advanced successfully ; and it was anticipated he would cut off SHERMAN'S communi cations with Nashville. These two simultaneous movements in the West are full of importance, bu! the PRESIDENT and his associatea will take care that as little as possible is known until the great political contest is concluded. It is a stormy pic ture, at best, and the real lovers of their country, whether North or South, may well look with a heavy heart on the wide-spread and continuous devastation. It is always to be regretted when those who at tempt to administer justice fail in some of its chief requisites, for the harm that such mistakes occasions is always incalculable. One of the most glaring cases of undue severity that has been made public for some time is recorded as taking place in Kent. A poor boy of fourteen years of age was brought be fore General HITCHENS, charged with the trifling offence of having knocked down six walnuts from a tree in a field. Surely, it was hardl y worth while to have brought up the youth on such a charge at all, but the most that was awarded to him should have been a reprimand or a fine, We are not told that the boy had been seen before to commit such an offence, and his own version of the affair might well have condoned his error in the sight of any one less austere than his judge. He said that he had been disappointed at his ill success when out nutting. and that he was tempted by the appearance of these walnuts in question. He therefore threw a stone and took up six that fell. It seems almost incredible th It, upon hearing such an account, General HITCHENS should have passed such a sontenca as that which followed. The poor boy was condemned to Maidstone prison, with hard labour, for sax months, The option of a fine was not allowed. Can anything be more monstrous than such a sentence P It is virtually ruining the boy for life, and taking away his chance of earning an honest livelihood, because he has done as hundreds do every day, and helped himself to a trifle. It is not as if he had entered a house and taken a small portion of property ; that would have been a very different effiir, and ought to have been dealt with rigorously by way of prevention. The punishment of Bil months' imprisonment with hard labour is dealt out to maay who have committed assaults on othere, and half killed them perhaps, and such an award is deemed sufficient, yet this poor boy is to una dergo a like penalty because he has been charged with a most trivial fault. Such things ought not to occur in the administration of justice, and it is to be hoped that some inquiry will be instituted into the circumstances of the affair. The Home Secretary should certainly turn his attention to this affair, and ascertain the grounds upon which such an extraordinary sentence could have been passed. It is a scandal to the community that such harshness should be tolerated, and it will prevent the recurrence of the like inconsistency for the future if notice is taken of this departure from just, tico which has taken place under the mask of the lzw. There can be no greater mistake committed than to send those convicted of trivial canoes at an early age to mix with felons, and it is a wrong thing to strain the law so that a youth should bear the stigma of imprisonment upon him at his cu. trance into life. Beyond these considerations it seems that in this case a direct error has been com mitted by the Magistrate himself, and for the sake of justice, which can never be too perfectly ad , ministered, some decided steps should be taken to prevent the chance of similar inconsistencies again arising to shock our sense of propriety. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE FRANCO-ITALIAN CONVENTION. PARIS, OCT. 10, The Constitutionnel of this morning, in an article signed by M. Limayrac, opposes the views of ex parties who see in this Convention the fall of the temporal power and the abandonmeat of Rome. " This Convention," says M. Limayrac, " will be executed in letter and spirit. Thinking otherwise, the ultra-Italian press grievously inEult the King of Italy, as do the clerical press the Pope." THE DUCHIES. BERLIN, OCT. 10, Letters received hare from Kiel say that Messrs. Samwer and Francke, the present advisers of the Duke of Augustenburg, have heard the rumour of their approaching dismissal solely from the news papers by whom this report has been spread. M. Samwer is on leave for several days, after which ho will resume his functions at Kiel. M. Francke is still in that town performing the official duties of his position, which he has not the slightest cause to resign. THE SUN, LONEOIv, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1864. DRUItY-LANE THEATRE. If anything could obliterate the notion that to ensure success managers of metropolitan theatres must of neces sity produce highly-wrought sensational dramas, the im mense audience assembled in Old Drury on Saturday evening to witness the performance of "Othello" must surely be sufficient. It proved unmistakeably that no sooner are managers to be found who will take the pains to represent with talent and taste the great Shakaperean drama than an oTerflowing audience is certain to be the result. Thus the representation of the tragedy of " Othello," with Mr Phelps as the Moor, Mr Creswick lago, Mrs Hermann Vezin•Desdemona, and Miss Atkinson Emilia, attracted an assembly as large, in fact larger, than the capacious pro portions of the largest theatre in London could accommo date. That the audience was not an unappreciative one was clear and palpable from the opening of the tragedy to its close. The hushed silence as the terrible climax approached, and the intense attention of all who watched the progress of the dreadful passion which finally overwhelms the Moor, was remarkable. The Othello of (Mr Phelps has become one of his finest acd most finished performances. He has entirely cast aside all those conventional points which many of his predecessors invariably indulged in, and in place of which he gave us a pure, original, and highly wrought portrait minutely per fect in every particular, and one that every person of taste and judgment must pronounce to be a masterpiece of art. The first portion of the part, until the opening of the third act, was uttered with the utmost dignity and ease, the half rebuke to his followers as they draw upon the father of Desdemona, being given in the most telling manner. There was none of that conventional roar that usually ac companies the delivery cf the lines by less talented per formers; (fl the contrary, the direction was given in the most natural manner, and the effect was thereby greatly heightened. Tho celebrated address to the Senate was beautifully declaimed; indeed, with the exception of the great Edmund Kean, we cannot remember ever to have heard the lines delivered with more dignity and simplicity combined. His doting love for his new-made wife was ex quisitely marked throughout, and his brimful happiness when he meets her at Cyprus, and the wars ended, and a long career of married bliss seems opened to him, was ex pressed with a gentle power that seemed to be the overflow ing beneficence of a mighty nature perfectly at rest. The violent emotion commences in the third act. The first outburst, v:z.— " I had rather 1)4 a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses," was given with terrific earnestness, Rage, tenderness, indignation, and ferocity fill up the remainder of the play until despair and remorse darken the picture to its deepest tones, and nothing is left but to throw over the agony the wide black shroud of death. In this arduous delineation Mr Phelps may have been surpassed in occasional intensity, h., has never been surpassed in purify, f. ding, and the sustenance of uniform passionate expression, He reached the highest point of art where he stood, Kith his head rest ing on his bosom gazng on the lifeless Desdemona, the very figure of despair, Mr Creswick's lago was a judicious and good performance, but to our taste he was a little too minute in his endeavour not to over-act the part. lie seemed thoroughly to understand the character, but his version of it required a little mere villany infused in the soliloquies and a little more boisterous display in the lighter scenes to show that his hilarity was forced and counterfeit. That his lago was a careful and intelligent performance we admit to the full, but in many parts it fell short of the mark. Mr Neville was the Cassio, but with the greatest respect to this young and ri,ing artist we think the character should have been placed in more abler hands. Mr. Walter Lacy's Roderigo was especially good, and the same may be said of Mr. Rayner's Brabantio. Nothing could be better than the Desdemona of Mrs. Herman Yezin. It was gentle, grace ful, and sweetly womanly. Her reading was elegant and tasteful, and her appearance the very beau ideal of female beauty. Miss Atkinson's Emelia is too well known and appreciated to need the slightest remark beyond saying that it was sustained with all its fine effects. The tragedy was carefully put upon the stage, the dresses and appoint merits being all new and historically correct. Sadler's Wells. night a ewas produced here, under the On tit S le at o u f rd ' a ' y The Witchfinder." The scene of the play is laid in Ancient Salem, in Massachussets, in 1693, at which period one Martin Holt, a religious fanatic, who be lieves he has been specially endowed by God with an infal lible gift to detect witchcraft, mercilessly puts to death all whom he so detects : hence the name of " Witchfinder." Of Miss Marriott's impersonation of the idiot boy we cannot speak too highly. The withering curse she pronounces on the witchfiader was a piece of acting that elicited, not alone tremendous applause, but a call before the curtain. The dialogue of the play is generally good and much to be commended. The piece is well put on the stage, and the scenic appointments all that could be desired. The house was crowded ; and it is to be hoped that Miss Marriott will meet with the reward her enterprise deserves in thus plac ing before the public semothing more than a mere sensa tional drama. MR SOTIIERN IN GLASOOW.-BRILLIANT SUC CESS OF " DAVID GARRICK."—Mr Sothern has achieved a success in "David Garrick" equal, if not surpass ing, that which greeted him in his first appearance here as " Lord Lundreary." Nightly, boas, stalls, pit, in fact every part of the house, aro crowded by enthusiastic and appreciative audiences. On Wednesday night quite a furore of applause broke forth at his exit on concluding his groat scene in hie second act, and though ➢lr Sothern acknow ledged the tribute paid to his performance by appearing and bowing in response, he had a second time to come forward before the plaudits ceased. A double "call" is something almost unprecedented.— Glasgow Daily ,Maid. A STATUE TO ROSSINI.—A small town in the east of Italy, where Rossini had once passed some time, conceived the idea of commemorating the great maestro's sojourn amongst them by a statue. The zeal was unhappily greater than the wealth, and after some months of unwearied toil the managing committee announced the sad fact, that although one spirited individual had of him self contributed the pedestal, which was already built and ready to receive the statue, the monied contributions only reached 1,200 f. In this dilemma they, with a courage that all must commend, waited on the illustrious composer, and asked him in what way he would himself advise this sum to be appropriated. " You want a statue," said he thoughtfully ; "and you have, it seems, only got as far as the pedestal." " Yes, Illustrissimo, that is our case." "And you have 1,2001 besides tow area your object ?" The committee bowed their acquiescence. " Give toe the money then, and I'll stand on the pedestal half an hour next Tuesday. I must leave on Welnesday, or I'd repeat the performance."—Blackwood. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE—C4tain Magoffin, late a captain in the Confederate army, and now a paroled prisoner of war, was brought before the Liverpool m tgis trates on Friday, under remand, charged with attempting to destroy himself Ly taking cpium. He had married during a freak, a Liverpool courtesan, and when ha came to himself ho was so horror-stricken and miserable that he attempted to destroy his life. He was remanded, in order that the chaplain of the gaol might have an opportunity of speaking to him. It was stated that the prisoner's friends had obtained a free passage for him to Glasgow, where he would be taken care of by his friends. Upon this assur ance he was released with a caution, and some good advice on the part of the bench. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT. 10. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia have abandoned their intention of visiting Nice. Their royal highnesses will proceed to S wifzerland and will have returned to Berlin by the 22d December next. Herr von Bismarck is expected to arrive in this capital from France on the 28th inst. Baron Bndberg arrived here yesterday evening, and proceeds to-morrow to join the Emperor of Russia. AMERICA. Richmond papers admit the defeat in the first day's fighting in the Shenandoah Valley, and esti. mats the Confederate loss at 2,500 men, and that o the Federals at 6,000 men. It is repor t ed from Lcu!sville that the governor of Georgia had tendered Sherman propositions of peace, and that the latter had sent commissioners to confer with the Georgian State authorities. The Confederates have enrolled all males between 16 and 50. The reported occupation of Brownsville by Cor , films is unfounded, New Orleans advices assert that Cortinas re pulsed the French in an attack upon Matamoras on the 14th. The City of Baltimore has arrived out. NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (Evening). Grant reports that Ord's Corps advanced this morning, and carried the strong fortifications of CAapin's farm, capturing 15 guns and 200 pri soners. Ord was wounded. General Birney ad• vanced simultaneously from Deep Bottom, and carried the Newmarket-road and entrenchments, scattering the enemy and taking a few prisoners. Birney is now marching towards Richmond, and has arrived at Junction-hill. The Newmarket and Richmond roads, and the whole country, are full of field fortifications. There has been no direct communication with Sheridan for several days. Guerillas have captured his couriers. Southern papers state that Sheridan's cavalry is at Staunton and Waynesboro'. Forrest has de. stroyed Sulphur Springs. Trestle has occupied Elkhorn Bridge, and captured two trains on the Chattanooga Railroad. He has now moved oft towards Fayetteville. Rousseau is returning to Nashville. Price has captured Potosi, Missouri. The com munication with the Federal garrison at Pilotknob is cut off. 12,000 Missouri militia are under arms. Secretary Stanton urges the people to encourage enlistment, to enable Sherman to hold Atlanta and advance still farther. A mass meeting in favour of Lincoln was held at New York. The Nova Scotian has arrived out. NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (Afternoon). Grant reports that Warren yesterday carried the enemy's line on the right, and was following up his success. General Meade has moved from the left, and carried the enemy's lines near Poplar Grove. Butler has repulsed an attack on his line. The operatiobs on the north side of the James River are successful. The royal mail steamship Arabia arrived at Queenstown at 6 a.m. this day (9th inst.) with 56 passengers and 18,280 dole. in specie. Sue banded 84 sacks of mails and four passengers, and pro. needed at 6.15 a.m. ; all well. The Arabia was de tained 15 hours off Halifax. (Per the S'. Andrew via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Evening). On Thursday night Sheridan continued the pur suit of General Eariy as far as Woodstock, where he halted to rest. Sheridan reports that he thinks there never was an army so badly routed as is that of General Early. Three thousand Confederate prisoners have arrived at Winchester. The City of Manchester and the America takes out 870,000 dols. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Evening). Money tighter. Gold, 2031. stocks depressed. The fall in both gold and stocks continues. New York Centrals, 1184-; Illinois, 1211 ; Erie, 100; United States 520 dols. Bonds, 1091. Middling Upland cotton, 140. Flour, corn, and provisions heavy. Wheat declining. Molasses dull. Crude petroleum, 42; refined do., 71. Confederate accounts of the battle near Winches hr on the 19th claim that Early had repelled the Federal infantry, inflicting upon them severe loss, and was about following up his advantage, when a force of at least six thousand cavalry charged upon and succeeded in turning his right flank, and that the Confederates then retreated in good order to Fisher's hill, bringing off all their trains in safety. The Richmond Examiner states that in this battle the Confederates captured seven hundred prisoners, and that their entire losses did not exceed twenty five hundred. The Federal losses, according to this authority, were between six and eight thousand. The Richmond papers pronounce the Federal ac counts absurdly false. No Confederate accounts of the subsequent battle and - defeat of Early, at Fisher's 11111, have been received. Brickenridge is reported to have left E.rly's army and gone to a command in the southwest. Sept. 27 (Evening). Money easy. Gold declined yesterday under a panic to 185, but rallied this afternoon to 1901. In consequence of large speculative sales stocks de clined, but recovered this afternoon to the following quotations :—New York Centrals, 1161,-; Illinois, 119: ; Erie, 94/ ; United States 5 dole. 20c. Bonds, 108 f. Sept. 29 (Evening). Money easy. Violent fluctuations of gold have taken place since Monday—between 183 and 204 in consequence of unfavourable rumours. The final quotation this afternoon was 1961. Large specula• Live sales have taken place in stocks. New York Centrals, 117; Illinois, 119 ; Erie, 96a ; United States 5 dole. 200. Bonds, 1091. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 125. Flour and wheat heavy. Corn dull. Provisions tending downwards. Coffee inactive. Sugar steady. Molasses heavy. Petro leum, crude, 39; refined, 65 to 671. Out. 1 (Afternoon). Gold, 901 per coat, premium. Stocks depressed. New York Centrals, 1131 ; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, 90i; United States 5 dole. 20c. Bonds, 1071. Cotton dull: Middling Upland, 120 to 125. Breadstuff_ heavy. Petroleum, crude, 39; refined, 63. THE TRIAL OF MuLLER.--In reply to a commu• nication from the Solicitor to the Treasury, the soli citor engaged in conducting Muller's defence has intimated that the prisoner will be quite ready to take his trial at the October Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, which will open on the 24th inst. ; and, in accordance with that an nouncement, it is fully believed that the trial will take place at the ensuing sessions. Tho counsel for the prosecution on behalf of the Crown arc—the Solicitor-General, Mr Giffixd, and Mr Beasley; Sergeant Parry being specially retained, with Mr Metcalfe and Mr Begley, for the defence. Muller, as a foreigner, it is understood, will avail himself of his privilege of being tried by a jury composed of half English men and half foreigners. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Arabia.) NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (Evening). Sheridan on Saturday was six miles south of Newmarket, and, in despatches for w arded on that day, reports that ho had driven the enemy from Mount Jackson without bringing on an engaged ment. The enemy were rapidly retreating. Sheri dan captured 20 guns and 1,100 prisoners at Fisher's Hill. Generals Rodes and Godwin are killed, and Fitz hugh Lee and York wounded. Sherman reports Hood to be moving towards the Alebama line. Forrest, with 8,000 men and 10 guns, is operating in Sherman's rear. He captured Athens with the garrison, and destroyed the rail.. road between Decatur and Athens. Forrest is moving to capture Pulaski, Franklin, and Shelby ville, and the intermediate blockhouses. Rousseau has taken the field against Forrest. Southern papers state that General Beauregard had received the command of the Confederate armies in Georgia. Davie is at Macon. Price has entered Missouri with 30,000 men, and it is supposed that he will march into a central part of the State. A large force under Generals Kirby Smith and Shelby co-operate with him. The Fe. derala evacuated Pilotknob, and retreated to Mine ral Point. Price advanced 20 miles to the north east of Pilotknob. General Rosencrans issued an appeal calling the people to arms. Business at St. Louis was suspended, and prepa rations were being made for the defence of the city. A doubtful report from Cairo states that Mobile had been captured. F RANCE. M. Artom, Councillor of Legation, has arrived in Paris to resume his functions as first secretary of the Italian Embassy. Considered one of the most rising diplomatists of Italy, he was called to Turin on the accession of the Minghetti Cabinet to fill the post of Chef de Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Albert Blanc, who was pri vate secretary to M. Vit,conti-Venosta, has been appointed Chef de Cabinet of General de Lamar mora, This gentleman had distinguished himself in French literature before he entered on Italian diplomatic life. The Imperial exequatur has been granted in the following cases ; Consul General—M. Thirion, for Schaumburg-Lippe, at Paris. Consuls—M, lire• linger, for Belgium, at Havre; M. Alvarez, for Peru, at Bordeaux; M. Garcia de Isla, for Nicar agua, at Bayonne; M. Gauthier, for the Argentine Republic at Cette ; M. Popoff, for Russia, at Rouen, and adjacent ports; M. Bardot, for Bremen, at Nantes. Vice- Consuls —M, Braceschi, for Italy, at La Calle ; Count Guri Savani, for Italy, at Port de-Bone; M. Derot, for Italy, at Calais; M. Ker ros, for Spain, at Brest; and M. Wagner, for Prussia, at Honfieur. The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree making the following diplomatic appointments : Baron de Talleyrand.Perigord, ambassador in Prussia, to go to St. Petersburg in the same capa city ; M. Benedetti, minister plenipotentiary of the first class, to be ambassador in Prussia ; M. Mercier, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America, to be ambassador at Madrid; Count de Reculot, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Portugal, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Germanic Diet, and minister plenipotentiary to the free city of Frankfort ; M. BourL., minister plenipotentiary in Cirecc9, to be envoy extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary in Portugal; M. de Gobineau, minister plenipotentiary in Persia, to go to Greece in the same capacity ; the Marquis de Cheteaurenard, minister plenipotentiary in Hesse, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America; Count de Massignac, secretary of the first-class, to be minister plenipotentiary in Persia ; Count de Bondy, secretary of the first-class, to be minister plenipotentiary in Hesse. To be secretaries of the first-class--M. Lefebvre do Behaine and M. Armand, precis-writers in the department of Foreign Affairs, in the place of Count Massignac and Count de Bondy. Count de Chasseloup3Laubat, who, as stated, is now at Brest, has visited, in company with Vice- Admiral Gueydon, the school for mechanicians on board the Vulcain ; the school lino of battle ship Breda, the gunnery ship Louis XIV., the Inflexible, on board of which 800 boys are assembled, and the Ville de Lyon, also a school ship for naval appren tices. The Minister has also inspected in detail the arsenal, the different docks, the workyards, BOURSE, 0,3 t. B,—The retrograde movement still continues. Threes, for the Account declined at the opening to 65f. 45c., but have since slightly rallied, and are now at 85f. 500. Mobilier have receded to 925 f. Railway Shares have been also cffered, and prices show a further fall. The market con tinued heavy to the close, Or Cents .. 92 40 and left off as follows : Italian Loan 66 3 Do. end month 66 45 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... (Oa 'tug end no: 3 per Cents Do, end mouth 65 40 Crcdit 920 Do.end month.... 915 ;eian Bank Shares 3390 Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt Deferred TAT 8. Cash. Account. 830 ~ 835 975 032 60 900 903 75 605 612 60 497 60 .. 491 25 .. 492 50 31.5 430 436 22 510 513 75 380 • . 355 470 .. 472 50 Credit I , oncier llBO Roman RAIL Orleans Northern Lyons and ideclit , prranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian .. Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona •• • • -- POLAND. The Moscow gazette publishes the eighth list of persons brought before the military tritu3als and condemned, within the limits of the general govern. meat of Kiew, for having taken part in the Polish insurrection. This series contains the names of 343 persons whose sentences have been confirmed by General Annenkoff. The Incalide Russe also con tains a list of 19 con d emnat i ons pronounced by a military commission sitting at Niemirow, in Pocolia, and confirmed by General Annenkoff, against Poles accused of having taken part in the late insurrection. THE SCORPION.—The Academy of Sciences has received a piper from Dr Guyon on the mortal name -; effects of the Africa n scorp i on ' s sting- Its sciontifl (Androctonus funestus) indeed expresses that it is fatal to man, and yet Dr Guyon states that perhaps out of 100 per sons stung there is scarce ly on e that dies of it. The ancients, who under the name of scorpion certainly !man the same insect, since it is found represented on Egyptian monuments and even eng rave d on prec i ous stone s, had a much stronger opinion of its de a dl y e ff ects. L u cen t in his `' Pharzalia," B. IX,, says, " Who would believe, on seeing the scorpion, that it has the power of causing such a sudden death ?" Leo Africanus states that the houses of Biskra are infested with scorpions, which are so venomous that death ensues imme diately aft er th e st i ng. Abd-Allatif, an A r abian phy s i c i an and traveller, s a y s , " At Koos a b un d an ce of scorpions ar e found, whos e) s ti ng i s frequently morta l . " D r Guy o n k nows of eight cases in which the sting of the African scorpion was followed by death ; three of the sufferers were men, two were women, and three children. Two of the latter cases occurred in 1856, near Laghouat, in Algeria. Ono was that of a boy nin e years old, who was stung on t h e forefinger of the left hand b y the spot. Thi s occurred at 8 o'clock a m., an d b e f ore noon a scorpion, which was seen and crushed on on the following day the patient died. The sting had caused violent pain, increasing in proportion as the swelling ex tended to the arm. The boy had cried a long time, and then vomited considerabl y . The swe lling was in a great measure owing to the ligature which the Arabs always effect above the wound in such cases, The other case was nearly similar. Dr. Guyon states that children arc more liable to die from the effects of the sting than adults, and that a:nong the_ latter those who are stung somewhere on the head aro most likely to die of it. Mr. Gladstone's Visit to Bolton and Far north. Great preparations are being made, both at Bolton and Farnwortb, to give a cordial greeting to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will visit Bolton to.niorrow afternoon; and on the day following will open the public park at Farnwortb. The right bon. gentleman will arrive at the Trinityestreet Station, Bolton, at 4.38, where he will be met by the Mayor and Town Clerk, Mr Barnes, MT., Colonel Gray, M.P., and Mr Alfred Barnes, chairman of the Fern worth Local Board. These gentlemen will Escort Mr Gladstone to the Free Public Library, where he will be met by MrCinnon and other members of the Library and Museum Committee. They will then proceed to the Market Hall, and thence to the Temperance Hall, where the Mayor will present to Mr Gladstone the following address from the Cor poration : To the Right Hon. William E wart Gladstone, M.P. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir,—We; the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster. desire to express the deep gratification which your visit to this town* affords to all classes of its inhabitants, and the great regret felt on their part that your stay amongst them is unavoid ably for so short a period. In common with many of our fellow-countrymen of all shades of political opinion, we admire you as a statesman possessing rare and distin guished abilities, and as a Minister occupying in the Go vernment of this country a high position, and adorning that Government with such gifts of oratory and financial ability, combined with great scholarship, as have rarely been equalled ; and we are glad that the town of Bolton has the honour of being publicly visited by so illustrious a man. The opening of the park at Farnwortb, which is the occasion affording us the privilege of your pre sence, has our warmest sympathy, and it gives us much pleasure to add that, through the liberal provision of that Government whose finances you so ably control, this borough is undertaking the formation of a park for the free use of its inhabitants ; and we doubt not that the present and future generations of our town, whilet enjoying the benefits thus conferred upon them, will regard with grati tude the Parliament which, at your instigation, has furnished the means of such healthful recreation. In oonclusion, we rejoice in giving you a hearty welcome upon this your first public visit to Bolton, and venture to express the hope that the time is not far distant when we shall be favoured with a longer stay than that which you are now enabled to make amongst us—Given under the common seal of the borough of Bolton, at a meeting of the Council of the said borough, he.ld on the sth day of October, 1834. After leaving the Temperance Hall, the party will proceed down Bradshawgate (to afford Mr. Glad stone an opportunity of inspecting the Crompton statue), and from thence to the residence of Mr. Alfred Barnes, Green Bank, Farnworth. On Wed nesday morning a procession will form at half-past nine o'clock, at the offices of the Local Board, in Derby-street, Farnworth, and will pass through the principal streets to the park. The ceremony will commence by the Sunday scholars singing the 100th Psalm, and after a pryer by the Bishop of Manchester, and addresses by Sir S. P. K.ay- Shuttleworth and the Rev. G. D. Macgregor, Mr. Barnes will present the park to the inhabitants for their use for ever. Mr. Alfred Barnes, as chairman of the Local Board, will accept the same, and Mr Gladstone will declare it open. In addition to the gentlemen before named, the Earl of Ellesmere, the lion. A. Egerton, M.P., Mr Massey, M.P., Mr Bazley, M.P,, Col. Gray, M.P., Mr J. Pilkington, M,P., and Mr Hibbert, M.P. have promised to attend. At one o'clock a luncheon will be served in a marquee. At three o'clock Mr Goddard will ascend in his balloon, at six o'clock there will be a display of fireworks, and at half-past seven there will bo a miscella neous entertainment in the New Hall, by the Congregational Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society. Great preparations are making, both in Bolton and Farnw orth, for the decorations of the streets, and the day will be observed in the neigh bourhood as a general holiday. The Collision on the Great Northern Railway. On Saturday it was announced that a Midland train from King's-cross had mu into a Great Northern train a' Welwyn junction on Friday evening. Further details have now been received, and it would appear that at the time of the collision a train of trucks from Lincolnshire, filled with potatoes and other agricultural produce, was entering the Welwyn station from the north, the engine being under the charge of an old and experienced driver, named Jessop, and at the time there were several fast trains, both of the Mid land and the Great Northern due, including the Midland down express. Whether from some misunderstanding on the part of the pointsman or the engine -driver of the up train could not be ascertained, but the agricultural produce train crossed the line, and, instead of going into a left-hand siding, crossed the line to the siding on the right-hand side of the station. At the time the agricultural train was cross ing the line to this siding, the down express, which was known to be due, appsared in sight, and before the driver of the engine of the goods train had time enough to remedy the mistake, either by going forward or retreating, the express train dashed in amongst the trucks, smashing them to pieces, and scattering the potatoes and other produce in all directions on the line and down the embankment. The express train was fortunately a very light one, having only seven carriage, attached to the engine and tender, and not a very large number of passengers, the raajarity of whom were in the afterpart of the train. The shock was tremendous ; but it is perhaps attributable to the velocity of the express at the moment that a serious loss of life did not take place. The engine of the agricultural train, having crossed the line and got on the siding, was not injured, the express engine hav ing struck this train near its centre, but the engine of the express train was much shattered and thrown eff the metals ; and although three or four of the trucks in the agricultural train were smashed, and several of tho fore most carriages of the express train also, it is a singular cir cumstance that the engine- driver and fireman of ti e ex press engine, which it might be expected, would have been annihilated, escaped with but slight injuries. The conster nation of the passengers is described as fearful, and so great was the fright of many that they rushed out of the train so soon as it was brought to a stand, and being unacquainted with the locality, and there being but a very slight amount of light from the rising moon, several would have jumped over the parapet of the viaduct and been killed, had they not been restrained by others who were acquainted with the character of the neighbourhood of the occurrence. As soon as the first alarm of the shock had subsided the station master at Welwyn telegraphed what had happened to Hat field, in the direction of London, and to Hitchin downward, to stop all trains either way, ales at the same time tele graphed the news to King's-cress that the accident had happened and the line was blocked. On receipt of this news Mr T. Williams, police superintendent, and subse quently Mr Leith, general superintendent, and Mr Burge, of the locomotive department, proceeded to Welwyn with a large number of labourers, accompanied by Mr Kirkwood, of the Euston-road, surgeon to the company, In the mean time Mr Dredge, of Welwyn, and other medical gentlemen from the surrounding districts, were in attendance on the sufferers, whose injuries, it is stated, were chiefly confined to superficial cuts about the faces and hands in some 12 or or 14 instances, and who with the exception of one gentle man, said to have had his ribs broken, were unable to pro ceed on their journey either on Friday night or Saturday morning. This gentleman still remains at the White Hart Hotel, Welwyn, to which house he was removed, but is stated to be progressing favourably. The escape of the pas sengers, when the fearful nature of the collision is consi dered, is truly miraculous, as, in addition to an empty horse box next to the tender, which was almost demolished, the whole cf the foot boards, door handles, the panels of the carriages were smashed, and the panels splintered and drove on the right hand or off side of the train. An investigation has been made into the cause of the ass cident, and it has been discovered that the points were put right to have shunted the agricultural train on to the left instead of the right hand siding, and it is believed that they must have by some means shifted, and that the driver of the engine of that train had not time to discover tho error and reverse his engine so as to get clear of the main line be fore the express came;upon them. GENERAL GARIBALDI AND LORD PALMERSTON.— When General Garibaldi came over to this country, he came —so, at least, hie friends say—with a curious mis sionary project in his head. Ho wanted and hoped to con vert Lord Palmerston to the cause of European nationalities. In his interview with the English Premier, it is said that he eagerly pointed out what a glory it would be to England to come forward as liberator of Rome and Venice. The story goes on to say that he received the same answer fram Lord Palmerston which Victor Emmanuel is always re ceiving from the Pope. Lord Palmerston admiited the weight of all that the General had to say, but closed the conversation with a non possuntus. To expect so enthusi astic a programme from the aged Premier was not merely to ask England to cuter on a new and active foreign policy for which she might be unfitted, but to ask a very old man to unfurl the oriftamme. MR. BANIM, one of the authors of the " Tales of the O'Hara Family," is preparing a new edition of this series of Irish tales, with new prefaces and copLus notes. T. • Lt is pretty well understood that many of these tales were founded on fact, and that the characters in them were living men. Thus Fai her Connell is said to have boen described from Father O'Donnell, the lionaan Catholic Dean of Os gory. The new edition is to contain a good deal of gossip on the real persons of these Irish stories. 6111 rt /kir uvular HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helen a and Prince Arthur, and attended by the NO' Emma Lucelles, drove to Loch Callater yesterdaY. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston ha ve arrived at Cambridge House from Broadlands. Despatches were received at the Colonial office a n , Saturday from the G overnors o f G i b ra ltar era Ceylon. Dispatches were sent to the GOver" rB of the Falkland Islands and Canada. THE LATE MR JOHN MACDONALD.—We learn that on hearing, on Saturday last, of the alarming illflt of Mr John Macdonald, who, from the regularity of his autumnal visits to the respected minister of Crathie, vie s doubtless well known by personal appearance to the Queerit her Majesty immediately requested her physician, Dr tie ner, to wait upon him ; awl the same evening, having ilea' of his death, the Queen sent a message to the manse to ea' press how deeply struck and grieved she was to hear of th e sudden and unl oc k e d f or even t. Th e pr i vate telegraph °f her Majesty to Balmoral was at once offered as a means of conveying tidings to Mr Macdonald's friends in burgh, and was used several times in the course of the day On Tuesday morning her Majesty sent to the manse to ill' quire whether any of the relatives of the deceased gentle- man had arrived, and manifested great anxiety to learn whether any service could be rendered in paying the ho t duties to his remains. This case adds another to the rasa Proofs we have had how tenderly her Majesty sympathises with efiTction in all its forms, and how kindly an interest she takes in all familiar faces. We may add that the re, mains of Mr Macdonald were conveyed from the manse to the railway station at Aboyn oa Wednesday morning hi ti small company of relatives and other mourners, and O r° thence taken south by railway to Edinburgh. On Fridayt they were interred in th e D ean C eme t ery ,—Edi n burg h Courant. DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM TYLER.—This gentle' man, for many years proprietor of the vast esta 4 blishment known as the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardener died on Sunday last, after a short illness, at his residence, Cringleford, near Norwich. Mr Tyler became proprietor of the gardens in 1844, having previously been secretary t° Mr Cross, the original founder of them, and he continued the proprietorship till 1858, when the property was vested in a limited liabiiity company. The grand music hall WO afterwards used as a chapel by Mr Spurgeon, and is O W doing duty as the temporary site of St Thomas's Hospita l ' GUNPOWDER STORES.—The Home-office hes.in d stituted inquiries as to the quantity of gunpowder in stora in the several localities where it is kept to any large amoun t ' It is remarkable that there is a provision respecting th e quantity kept where the manufacture is conducted. Tha t) is also a limitation of the amount kept on hand by th e licensed retailers of the article. There are also stringent regulations for the protection of the Government stores 11 sea and land. But it is in the large warehouses of the manufacturers and wholesale dealers that the greatest quantities are to be found, and it is to these that the neiV legislation on the subject will be specially directed.' Observer. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT,--The Lord Chan' cellor and the commissioners who will be appointed by Her Majesty assemble in the House of Lards on Thurs day next, the 13th instant, for the purpose of proroguing the Imperial Parliament until Friday, the 11th November. There seems to be misapprehension in the public mind, had erroneous statements have appeared in several newsPaPe r , in reference to the durati on o f th e p resent P ar li amen t. was " begun and holden on the 21st of May, 1859, ' and will not legally expire until the close of next year. The last was the "sixth" Session, and as Parliament is septennial , " seven" cannot be holden. According to the usual prat" tine the dissolution will take place next spring, and the new Parliament assemble in November following for a short time, and then adjourn to February or March for the transaction of general business. SUICIDE FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—On St 4 turday morning, shortly before 10 o'clock, a man, apparently 50 years of age, leaped over the parapet of the centre arch of Westminster-bridge, the bridge being at the time crowded with foot passengers and vehicles. On the alarm being raised, Henry Phelps, pierman at the Surrey side of the bridge, put off in his boat, and succeeded in coming up With the unfortunate man before he, had sunk the second timer and brought him ashore alive, but senseless. He was taken to 'Westminster Hospital, where, despite the efforts of the surgeons of the institution, he expired in about 20 minu'es. DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.—Oa Saturday an inquest was held by Mr Richards, at the Ada" and Eve Tavern, Hoxton, on Sarah Ann Reynolds, aged 49, who died from the effects of laudanum. The deceased, who was a sempstress, had been suffering a long time front nervousness and ticdoloreux. On Tuesday last deceased told one of the lodgers that she would have no rest until eh° took some laudanum. A female named Mears called to ece the deceased on Wednesday morning, but could not make her hear. The door was forcibly opened, when the deceased was discovered dead, lying with her head on the bed and her legs upon a chair, with a bottle by her side. Mr Hickot surgeon, who made a post mortem examination, stated that he found the lungs and brain congested, which had been caused through an overdose of laudanum. The deceased had been in the habit of taking large quantities of laudanum' The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from the mortal effects of laudanum, taken to alleviate pain. AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—HaIifax, Sept. 22--Th e blockade runners the Lady Sterling and the Armstrong cleared for Bermuda yesterday. The Little Hattie, which sailed a few days since, returned to-day. Havannah, Sep t ' 17—The Denbigh arrived on the 15th from Galveston, en d the Susanna, on the 12th, five days from Houston. T ll° latter started wifh 325 bales of cotton, but reached this porS with only 73, having thrown the balance overboard to feel • litate her escape from a Federal cruiser off Cape Sa ll Antonio. The Federal steamer Honeysuckle reports the capture of the Matagorda (formerly the Alice), with 600 bales of cotton, and the arrival of the prize at Key West' The Matagorda was from Galveston for this port. BEAU NASH.—His laws were suited to his times , and this is the test of a good legislator. He was obeyed, both in these and other particulars; nor did he admit tho claims of rank or fortune to an exemption from his ordinances. The balls were to begin at six and close at eleven. He would not suffer them to continue a moment longer, on account of the invalids, and for the sake of the reputation of the waters. Not even for the Royal famill would ha deviate from any of his rules. The Princess Amelia once applying to him for one dance more after ho had given the signal to withdraw, he assured her royal highness that the established rules of Bath resembled the laws of Lycurgus, which would admit of no alteration with" out an entire subversion of all his authority. He now set himself to correct the ball attire of his rude subjects. Ir appears that the ladies offended by coming in white a pronos and the gentlemen by appearing in riding boots. So un• compromising was his aversion to the former, that he once divested a duchess of her apron at a ball and threw it among the waiting women, saying none but Abigails appeared in white aprons. The dechess acquiesced and begged his Nil' jesty's pardon. Whenever any gentleman, through igli c) " ranee or haste, appeared in boots, Nash would make up to him, and, bowing in an arch manner, would tell him that he had forgot his horse, But a more serious undertaking was to induce gentlemen to leave their swords behind them. These inconvenient appendages were sometimes alarming, for they were apt to get unsheathed on very light provocation, and sometimes with fatal effects. A duel took place in the Grove by torchlight between two gamesters, the tragical consequences of which had the effect of aiding tha policy of Mr Nash. Ho at length carded his prohibition ireo effect, and they ceased to be worn at Bath, to the great relief of the ladies resorting thithcr. And if he heard of challenge given and accepted, he instantly had both parties arrested."—Eade 's Guide to Bath. FATAL LEAP OVER EDINBURGH CASTLE Rocg. —On Friday morning, about 5 o'clock, a private 0 the 74th Highlanders, named Robert Wilson, expired 10 the Castle Hospital from injuries he sustained by falling or throwing himself from the Argyll battery of the Castle on Thursday morning. He was discovered lying at th° foot of the Castle rock, near the railway, about 2 1 i 11 ° o'clock on Th urs d a y morn i ng , an d h e was remove °. to the garriton hospital. 'Wilson was a man of about 35 years of age, and had been 18 years in the regiment' He bore a good character generally, but was occasiona ll y addicted to over-iadulgence in strong drink, and his strange behaviour on some occasions gave his comrades the iropresr sion that his brain had become affected during his servica with the regiment in India. It is said that on Wednesds9 night ho had been drinking, and it is conjectured that he had thrown himself over tho parapet of the battery while suffering from delirium tremens - .—icolsman. COOKING WITHOUT FIRE.—The ingenious 31 ' Babinet, of the French Institute, has discovered the means of cooking without fire. He has just laid before the academy the result of his experiments. His recipe is'' Place your food in a black pot, coverei with sundry Pa l l of glass, and stand it in the run, The water soon boils, ancl the food is said to be of better flavour than if cooked in tha ordinary way. But we are in a season when, in Londoa at least, it will hardly do to trust to the sun as a substitu to for a kitchen firs, a n d the probability is that this new 111 " vention will ba about as useful as that attempted in t" land where the inhabitants cccupied themselves in endeay." outing to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER. --°ll Soturday, Frances Turner, 12 years of ago, residing °. Brook-green, Hammersmith, was playing with her fat her powder horn, when the powder exploded, shattering L-€ r r;ght Land in a dreadful manner, and otherwise eerie:Wl ibjaring her,